[dev] The Content Controller / ApplicationController - How does this work

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Quoting Ralf Lang <lang at b1-systems.de>:

> Hi,
>
> I'm a little puzzled by Horde_Controller use at the moment.
>
> Most applications (trean, nag) have controllers in app/controllers  
> which inherit Horde_Controller_Base and implement abstract  
> processRequest() to service requests (either one controller per  
> action or actions separated by a switch statements)
>
> The content application is different. It does not seem to implement  
> processRequest(). It provides a base controller  
> Content_ApplicationController extends Horde_Controller_Base - which  
> does not implement processRequest. This base controller is used by  
> TagController (which I would have expected to be  
> Content_TagController) which also does not implement processRequest.  
> Individual actions are separate methods.
>
> Also, content seems to have views living under app, stored by  
> controller and method, which seem to get processed by some ->render  
> method (which is not part of Horde_Controller_Base nor  
> Content_ApplicationController)
>
> How does this work? Where is the magic part I am missing?
> Is this design considered future proof or is this a dead end which I  
> should not follow designing new applications?

To tell the truth, the implementation in Content is probably broken.  
Chuck wrote that very early on as a POC and it's not used anywhere in  
out code (we access the API directly, and don't use the  
routes/controller interface). I would base your code after the way  
it's done in E.g., Nag or Trean. The Horde website  
(https://github.com/horde/horde-web) also uses Horde_Controller and  
Horde_Routes, as well as my personal website  
(https://github.com/mrubinsk/turweb_blog) if you want to see other  
examples.


> Regards
>
> Ralf
>
>
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